Darren Turner

Darren is our Auckland based Trainer/Kaiako. He joined The Learning Place in 2015, as the North Island Trainer. With 30 years experience in hospitality, working in front of house, Darren took to the teaching sector with fevour. In 1994 he bestowed his excellent skills and experience on the tertiary sector, working for a range of providers like UNITEC, AUT, MIT, NZMA, WelTec, Wintec, and lastly NSIA (this is where The Learning Place found him and borrowed him… with no intention of returning him) Darren has a deep and abiding love for coffee, wine, cooking over charcoal, watching movies, and enjoying old school vinyl on some serious AV gear.